British Expats - Schooling - changing from UK to Oz

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Originally Posted by tracey.d (Post 4918904)

Thanks :)

Does that mean that she will be in with kids her own age then?

She will definitely have her GCSE results as that's what we're waiting for. I decided as we'd waited so long to move we may as well wait an extra 2 months for her to collect her results with her mates. I'll get in touch with one of the schools I 'm considering and see what they say.

Thanks again

Yes Tracy she would be in her age group, but school didnt give us that information, he's GCSE qualification is worth anything it was the department of eduction in SA did after we call them.
So find the school you want her to go, if they have no knowledge of it get in touch with the department of the education of the state your moving to, register her at the school, the school will have to forward her result to them, basically if they dont know that our GCSE is equivalent to their 11, they wont help you.
you have to do all the hard work, for them to do something for you.
It did involve in a lot of visit to the school for us, lets hope you wont have the same problem.

Farideh